Back from the Dead [Blu-ray]

This new Blu-ray from Kino and Paramount appears to be the official home video debut for Back From The Dead (1957), and it was worth the wait.Blu-ray video and audio quality: Kino touts a “Brand New HD Master by Paramount Pictures - From a 4K Scan.” It looks amazing - sharp, lots of fine detail, and contrast is strong. While speckling is common, it is never distracting. The audio is presented in DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0ch and sounds great. There are optional English subtitles.Blu-ray special features: Two new commentary tracks, one with Tom Weaver, Gary D. Rhodes and Larry Blamire, and a second commentary track with David Del Valle and Dana M. Reemes. Tom, Gary, and Larry each take turns speaking with Tom taking the lead, while the track with David and Dana is more conversational as they share their comments together. Despite some contradictory information, both tracks are fun, insightful, and highly entertaining.This was a total blind-buy for me as I’ve never seen Back From The Dead before, and I couldn’t be happier with my purchase. A wonderful video and audio presentation, along with the two commentary tracks, combine to elevate this release into five-star territory. Now, if only other titles from the Regal Films library could also get a Blu-ray release, like the one also from 1957 that features a certain marauding mechanical menace…

An average and disappointing film. Nicely shot and acted in most parts. There was a potentially good film trying to get out, but failing. Despite that I enjoyed it.

This is one of the legion of horror/sci-fi films that came out in the '50s, i.e., made on a shoestring budget and sent out with a similar co-feature. I saw this when it was first released in 1957. Co-feature The Unknown Terror. I wouldn't call either film a masterpiece of low-budget film production but I sure enjoyed them. This has little horror but the plot is interesting, the actors are more than competent and I loved the creepy music score. If I were a professional critic I'd probably rate it 2.5 stars, BUT I am not a professional critic and I take other things into consideration, nostalgia, for example. Sooooo, I'm giving it 3 stars and an additional star for the extras.Re-read this for my ratings on Republic Pictures Horror Collection and Sci-Fi Chillers.BTW: Low budget masterpieces Monster That Challenged The World, The Quatermass Experiment, Earth vs. The Flying Saucers, The Werewolf and many more.Just for laughs: You have to watch The Giant Claw.

This is a film I'd never seen and have been curious about it for many years. Until recently, most of these "RegalScope" films have not been available in their original anamorphic format. So I was glad to finally see quite a few come out on Blu ray. Most of them were low budget 7 day, $125,000 black and white productions, made for 20th Century Fox by Robert Lippert and shot in CinemaScope for the many theaters that had installed new screens and anamorphic lenses and needed scope product and 2nd features, but since Fox was licensing CinemaScope to bigger budgeted, color features to other major studios, they chose to call it "RegalScope', so as not to diminish the name or money they were making off the process. Back from the Dead is a pretty boring horror movie about a devil cult in Laguna Beach and possession by a dead woman. It's a completely made movie with an okay cast, but nothing much happens, due to a dull script and doesn't deliver the goods on any level. The movie gets one star but the transfer is very nice so it gets an extra star for that. It was on sale so I thought I'd take a chance. Hopefully more RegalScope films will come out in the future since there are some good ones, including Plunder Road, Gang War and Space Master X-7. And we need a Blu ray update on Kronos, as well.

The dead wife of the man who would just gotten married again, comes back to life in the body of the new wife. Naturally, they’re two totally different types of people that’s the premise of the story so you sit there watching and hoping that the dead wife becomes dead again And the happy couple are reunited. Very entertaining peace